Once again, Centrus are proud to have sponsored the #TourDeLunsar 2022, Sierra Leone’s largest cycling race, promoting an exciting future for professional cycling in West Africa.
It is a pleasure to support the incredible Lunsar team as they continue to grow youth confidence and achievement through cycling in Sierra Leone.
To find out more about The Tour De Lunsar, click here.
For more information, please email george.roffey@centrusadvisors.com
Long-time partners of Centrus Communities, SHP are a London-wide charity working to prevent homelessness and help vulnerable and socially excluded people transform their lives.
The Centrus team were split into multiple groups and tasked with cleaning out the hostel basement full of unused items ready for collection, painting an area that will be used for in-house bike workshops and creating a TV/ recreation room for the residents to enjoy.
The project was part of our Volunteering Month programme, which encourages employees to take a day to volunteer with a charity of choice.
Centrus Communities is proud to announce our support of Stepaside FC, the Dublin based youth football club that aims to promote both girls’ and boys’ soccer in a positive environment. With over 100 active members, Stepaside encourages the participation of all abilities, developing players both on and off the pitch.
The community ethos of Stepaside FC fits perfectly with the core values of Centrus Communities, our volunteering and fundraising initiative, where we challenge ourselves to look at innovative ways to deliver social impact and social innovation in our communities.
Centrus has strong personal links with the club through co-founder Jason Murphy who volunteers as a coach, experiencing first-hand the positive impact that Stepaside FC has in the community.
We are pleased to have joined the Stepaside team, and look forward to being part of their journey! To learn more about the club, click here.
To learn more about Centrus Communities or to get involved, please contact George Roffey, Chief Sustainability and People Officer – Centrus
The project has been led by a charity, Mumbles Community Association, which was set up specifically to drive the delivery of the new facilities in Underhill Park and to ensure the long-term management and development of the park for future generations.
Centrus Communities is the vehicle through which Centrus Financial and its employees contribute to communities in a variety of ways, whether through donations, volunteering or pro bono support and advice to projects, charities and social enterprises.
“Go Underhill is a fantastic project and I’m delighted that Centrus has been able to provide both financial support and advice on the fundraising process and to work with the great team of community volunteers bringing this project to life. Having played for both Mumbles Rangers and Mumbles Rugby club from a young age, Underhill Park holds very special memories for me.
Commenting on the partnership with Go Underhill, Centrus co-founder and CEO Phil Jenkins said
With friends and family in the area, I retain strong personal links with Mumbles and Centrus works with many social housing clients in South Wales, which makes it a great project for us to be involved with and our support underlines our commitment to delivering ‘Finance with Purpose'”
“We are very grateful to Centrus, and to Phil, for this £15,000 donation. Both the funding itself and the assistance that is being given are making a real difference to MCA’s ability to deliver this longed for project for the community in Mumbles.
Chair of MCA, Simon Tse, said:
On behalf of the Trustees and the people of Mumbles, I would offer a huge ‘Thank you’.”
During the 15-kilometre course, runners endured 30 world-famous obstacles including Funky Monkey, Cage Crawl and Electric Eel which, according to Phil, were a lot of fun (in a somewhat painful way).
Phil sent a before and after photo as proof of completion, along with the many aches and bruises collected throughout the day – made worse by multiple electric shocks on the final obstacle!
Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity, that work to prevent homelessness in London; providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change.
Centrus Communities, Centrus’ internal fundraising and volunteering initiative, was pleased to support Phil’s fundraising efforts by matching all donations received, helping to raise a total of £6,000 for Single Homeless Project.
Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity, that help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change.
From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, SHP make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.
This year, the Centrus team took part in ‘Santa in the City’, London’s iconic 5k Santa Run, to raise money for Single Homeless Project.
We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who donated. The team is thrilled to have raised over £2000 for SHP in a matter of weeks.
To learn more about SHP and the fantastic work they do to prevent homelessness in London, head to their website.
During our West Africa Challenge where 6 Centrus members rode 300km across Sierra Leone and Liberia to help support Street Child, a charity which supports vulnerable children and promotes education in these two and three other countries, we were grateful to the Lunsar Cycling team who looked after us throughout the trip so when the opportunity came up to support their efforts in promoting professional cycling in West Africa, we were very excited to join in and support where we could.
Tour de Lunsar, set up by Lunsar Cycling, is the biggest bike race in Sierra Leone displaying an exciting future of professional cycling in West Africa.
“Our project here is about helping young people enhance their lives through a bike…” We are very proud sponsors and glad to have supported such an incredible project.
We’re delighted that Centrus has partnered with us to deliver the Tour de Lunsar in 2021. Without their support we could not have created the biggest and best edition of the race to date, and we are hopeful of continuing the partnership into the future. We thank the team at Centrus, as well as their wider network of clients and colleagues from the bottom of our hearts.
Abdul Karim Kamara, CEO – Tour de Lunsar
It is a pleasure to support the incredible work that Karim and the wider Lunsar team have been doing. The Tour de Lunsar highlights the breadth of talent in the area and our commitment to see this event continue to grow. There has been an enormous amount of work from Karim and the Lunsar team and we are proud to be a part of this.
Jonathan Cawdron, Senior Associate – Centrus
Check out the photos and results from the race here: https://www.lunsarcycling.com/race-centre
On the 30th August 2019, the entire team from Centrus in Dublin participated in a ‘Maintenance Day’ to help refurbish and improve the homes of the elderly community who live in Willie Bermingham Place in Dublin, in association with the charity ALONE. ALONE do not have a dedicated maintenance team and require companies like Centrus to fund and carry out maintenance work on the homes.
Willie Bermingham, who founded ALONE in 1977 began a campaign raising awareness of older people, who lived and often died alone by providing them with blankets, fuel and food. Amazing work still takes place today focusing on these vulnerable and sometimes forgotten people within our society who are either homeless, living in deprivation or socially isolated.
The maintenance project that the Centrus team were presented with for the day involved refurbishing a home for Noel, an elderly man living in Willie Bermingham Place. Noel became homeless 6 years ago when he seperated from his wife and moved out of their home. He found it hard to obtain accommodation due to older people not being seen as desirable tenants and found himself moving from place to place with just one bag.
“Three years ago I moved into an ALONE Housing unit. I am one of the fortunate ones because not everybody is that lucky to get into a place where you get all the support you need. You have your own privacy, it means the world. I’m very happy to be down there. There’s no place like your own hall door, you know, that you can call home.”
Noel
The team set to work to freshen up Noel’s home with paint and soft furnishings. The kitchen, living and sleeping areas were deep cleaned and fresh coats of paint were applied to the ceiling and walls. A new floor was laid, new curtains were hung up and the bed was dressed in new bed covers.
A few members of the team also found themselves in another home picking jigsaw pieces off the wall from a creative and imaginative elderly man who used to live there but had since moved elsewhere. This was due to be refurbed by another corporate team a few days later for another elderly person but any help to prepare for the refurb was much needed.
The work was tiring and strenuous at times but the smile on Noel’s face when he came home to a fresh, clean house was truly warming. It is these moments, where the capacity to give something back to the community proves extremely meaningful to the individuals involved. To have the opportunity to enhance the lives of others is imperative to Centrus Communities and we endeavour to continue to make a difference in society.
You can find out more about the great work that ALONE do at: https://alone.ie/
On the 14th June 2019, a group of volunteers from Centrus in London spent the day at The Blackfriars Settlement through the support of HandsOn London.
Blackfriars Settlement has been a registered charity for over 130 years, helping to support the most vulnerable in the community.
On the day the volunteers helped deliver an outdoor festival for local residents and for some members of the Crusoe Club. The Crusoe Club offers a welcome to all who are aged 50 or over and living with a sight impairment. The club prides itself in creating a warm atmosphere where friends can meet and new friends made.
The Centrus team helped prepare the food, the venue and then serving drinks and sandwiches when the guests arrived. We learned how much social interaction, music and friendly faces make a positive difference for residents.
We live up to our values of contributing to the communities around us and we were delighted that this event gave us the opportunity to give something back.
